PUN IN HARRY POTTER: http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/wordplay/knight.html
When Harry hastily departed 4 Privet Drivet after inflating Aunt Marge, he found himself in the middle of Muggle suburbia with lots of luggage and no money. What's more, a huge black something with gleaming eyes was staring at him from across the street.
At this crucial moment, Harry inadvertently did the right thing - he tripped and his wand flew into the air. This simple action summoned that wonderful deus ex machina, the Knight Bus, 'emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard'. The name of the driver, Ernie Prang ('prang' means car crash in colloquial British English), and the conductor, Stan Shunpike (the bus not only shuns pikes, but also most other features of Muggle road transport) are a study in word play themselves. Unfortunately, neither is even hinted at in the Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese translations so we'll leave Ernie and Stan to go on their way.
More interesting is the name of their bus, the 'Knight Bus'. This name incorporates a rather interesting pun. Spoken aloud, the name sounds like 'night bus' - a bus that runs at night. But the spelling is 'knight bus' - suggesting a knight in shining armour coming to the rescue. http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/wordplay/peckpack REPETITION IN NURSERY POEM "HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE": Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
ALLITERATION:
After the list of common examples, someone has written: Occasionally parents and authors use alliteration in the naming of their children and characters, and followed with Woody Woodpecker.
However, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Super Sonic were included in the large list. Is there any reason for this? ALLITERATIVE POEM "THE TYGER"
; Tyger, tyger burning bright,
In the forest of the night;
What immortal hand or eye
Could name thy fearful symmetry? http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliterationclassics.html Daddy's Gone A Hunting Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a - hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin
To wrap baby bunting in. ASSONANCE: El Dorado (POEM)
By Edgar Allen Poe
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old,
This knight so bold,
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow;
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be,
This land of Eldorado?" (look for "o' sound)
DICTION: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes there is more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet by heaven I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. - William Shakespearehttp://www.megaessays.com/essay_search/example_diction.html
LINK FOR SLIDE SHOW:
http://www.photoshow.com/watch/zJ9vr6aR
PUN IN HARRY POTTER:
http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/wordplay/knight.html
When Harry hastily departed 4 Privet Drivet after inflating Aunt Marge, he found himself in the middle of Muggle suburbia with lots of luggage and no money. What's more, a huge black something with gleaming eyes was staring at him from across the street.
At this crucial moment, Harry inadvertently did the right thing - he tripped and his wand flew into the air. This simple action summoned that wonderful deus ex machina, the Knight Bus, 'emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard'. The name of the driver, Ernie Prang ('prang' means car crash in colloquial British English), and the conductor, Stan Shunpike (the bus not only shuns pikes, but also most other features of Muggle road transport) are a study in word play themselves. Unfortunately, neither is even hinted at in the Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese translations so we'll leave Ernie and Stan to go on their way.
More interesting is the name of their bus, the 'Knight Bus'. This name incorporates a rather interesting pun. Spoken aloud, the name sounds like 'night bus' - a bus that runs at night. But the spelling is 'knight bus' - suggesting a knight in shining armour coming to the rescue.
http://www.cjvlang.com/Hpotter/wordplay/peckpack
REPETITION IN NURSERY POEM "HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE":
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
FOLLOWING IS A LINK TO THE VIDOE OF THIS POEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAhhZ0w0iQU
ALLITERATION:
After the list of common examples, someone has written: Occasionally parents and authors use alliteration in the naming of their children and characters, and followed with Woody Woodpecker.
However, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Super Sonic were included in the large list. Is there any reason for this?
ALLITERATIVE POEM "THE TYGER"
;
Tyger, tyger burning bright,
In the forest of the night;
What immortal hand or eye
Could name thy fearful symmetry?
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliterationclassics.html
Daddy's Gone A Hunting
Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a - hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin
To wrap baby bunting in.
ASSONANCE:
El Dorado (POEM)
By Edgar Allen Poe
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old,
This knight so bold,
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow;
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be,
This land of Eldorado?"
(look for "o' sound)
DICTION:
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes there is more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet by heaven I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. - William Shakespearehttp://www.megaessays.com/essay_search/example_diction.html